Improved ornamental covering for floors, walls



HENRY WHITTEMORE, OF NEW YORK, NQY.

Letters Patent N 96,523, dated November l2, 1869,

MRQvBORNAMENTL covERING Fon rLooRs, WALLS, am.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patentv and` making part ofthe same.

T0 all 'whom it ma!! mmcem: ornamental marqnetry figures, are properlyarranged Beit known that I, HENRY WHITTnMonn, of New within suitablecompressing-trames, and their edges York, in the county ot' New York,and State of New firmly bound together. Glue or other suitable cementYork, have invented a new and useful Improvement is then spread over theSurface of a piece of suitable in Ornamental 'Wood Covering for11`loo1s,\Valls, 85e.; canvas or other fabric, and the same is then laidupon and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, the wood andtirmly compressed thereto, so that, when clear, and exact descriptionot' the same, reference dry, the pieces forming thedesign, are allfirmly bound being had to the accompanying drawings, in which-i in placeupon the canvas back.

Figure 1 represents, in perspective, the interior of The wood side isthenplaned, smoothed, and pola room decorated with the iioor andwall-covering ished, and is readyto be laid upon the floor.

which I have invented. g A door-covering constructed in this way ismaterially Figure 2 represents a square or corner-piece, showcheaper,not inferior in any respect to that made of ing the manner of combiningthe various pieces. thicker wood in the ordinary way, and in some par-Figure 3'is an edge view of the same, showing the ticulars it is.actually much superior to the ordinary canvas back. marquetry flooring.

For convenience, I hereinafter describe my inven- It is much cheaper,first, because it consumesonly tion as applied to iioors, but I-do soonly fo1",conven about one-third as much material; second, it affordsence, as it may bc applied in the saine way to walls, facility for theuse of machinery; third, the lactual wainscots, ceilings, stairs, &c.,and I desire to be unlabor of vplacing and securing the blocksisconsiderably dei-stood as including allot' theseuscs in my descripless.A* tion. It is equally durable, because, before the thickness In woodenmarquctry floors it has hitherto ,been of this flooring will have beenworn through, any tloorcustomary to employ wooden pieces of about one\inch ing 'would require to be relaid. in thickness, and to lit thevarious parts upon the doorl It is superior, from the fact that therewill never itself, separately securing each piece in place. This beanyopen cracks to harbor dust or vermin, and the process is expensive andtedious, and my invention is canvas backing forms a superior deafener.

designed to produce the same effects at a much less Hence, for otiice,stair-passage, and hospital-floors, cost. it forms a most desirablecovering; and, on account It consist-s in forming the marquetry designwith of the beautiful combinations and designs it is susthin strips otdifferent woods, cut and fitted at the ceptible ot', it is alsoparticularly adapted to use in parworkshop, and with glue or othercement securely set lors and dining-rooms, in lieu of mattings,oil-rloths, &c. in place upon a backingpf canvas or other suitable ,Foruse as wainscoting, it is secured against the materia By this method theHoor-covering is en wall by rebating the wash-board, and by propernostirely prepared and finished at the workshop, where ing, 85e., at theupper edge. proper machinery can be employed to, facilitate and per-This invention may also be'applicd to the pnlposes feet the work. It maythen be conveyed to the place of' decoration of articles of furniture,in panelling, &c., of deposit and laid upon the-tloorwith as littletrouble and in the construction of boxes, Sto., for which it is asordinary carpet or oil-cloth,V being secured in place intended to askfor separate Letters Patent.

by a few slender nails. lHaving described my invention,

That others may fully understand this invention, I What I claim as new,iswill particularly describe its construction and advanlvIarquetry floorand wall-covering, constructed by tages. cutting and fitting thin piecesof wood, and gluing The wood to be employed should be thoroughly seathemto a back ot' canvas or other suitable material, soned by ki|n-drying orotherwise, and, after being substantially as set forth.

slitted into latlis about one-fourth of an inch in thick- HENRYVVHITTEMORE. ness, and of about one inch in width, more or-less,it isifVitnesses: smoothly planed and the edges matched. It. D. O. SMITH,

These lath are then cut by pattern to it the desired C. A. HARKNESS.

